Magnet mount for a wireless antenna. This particular mount has a Ubiquiti dish on it.
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My first wireless enclosure
This “enclosure” was my first attempt at being a Wireless ISP with no budget. The problem I was trying to solve was putting a waverider Subscriber module on top of a 150 grain leg. The Waverider unit was designed for indoor use. You would mount the unit indoors and then run hardline out to your antenna. In our use case, the 160 foot run of hardline would have caused too much loss. So before you is the solution. We put an APC battery...
Continue reading...Anyone remember these Wireless antennas?
Just a blast from the past. These were popular in the SMartBridges days of Wireless Internet.
Continue reading...Drunk Posts of a Senior Engineer
Worth a read. https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/nmodyl/drunk_post_things_ive_learned_as_a_sr_engineer/
Continue reading...From the Big Brother Files: Chicago Heat
The Chicago Police Department is using an algorithm to predict whether citizens will be involved with a shooting incident. While the system identifies people who might be involved with an incident, it doesn’t say on which side the citizen might be involved. This resulted in a citizen with no record of violence being continually contacted by the police, which caused the person to be targeted twice by violent crime. The system uses data from police stops and arrests to make educated guesses about...
Continue reading...A tool to find out if BGP is lying to you
APNIC has a bog article on detecting “bgp lies”. https://blog.apnic.net/2021/05/24/a-tool-to-detect-bgp-lies/Do you ever wonder whether you can really trust other networks, such as your provider(s) and peers? More precisely, wouldn’t you like to be able to tell if the traffic you send always flows through the paths received in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)? Could it be that, for some prefixes, the forwarding path might differ?
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Continue reading...Indiana Broadband Office designates Warren County as a Broadband Ready Community
Indiana Broadband Office designates Warren Countyas a Broadband Ready Community INDIANAPOLIS (May 11, 2021) – Today, the Indiana Broadband Office announced Warren County is now designated as an official Broadband Ready Community. The Broadband Ready Communities Program was created as a tool to encourage broadband development throughout Indiana. “About 10 years ago, leaders in Warren County collaborated to bring fiber connections to the hospital and to the schools. It was a great start that helped position Warren County for further development. Now, that same...
Continue reading...VISP announces four new features for ISPs
VISP.NET announces some new features to it’s platform
Continue reading...Android 12 widgets and notifications
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/16/22438065/new-leaks-ahead-google-io-android-12-big-changes A new leak showing off Android 12 has appeared just before Google I/O. The video shows what appears to be a new user interface with new widgets, toggles, and stacked notifications. There is also a new keyboard design and a new lock screen with a larger clock. The video revealing the leaks is linked in the article.
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